Video: Learning to Laugh

This week in the magazine, Raffi Khatchadourian writes about Dr. Madan Kataria, the founder and relentless promoter of Laughter Yoga. (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) In this video, Khatchadourian visits a seminar on Laughter Yoga led by Dr. Kataria, who claims that the technique is a potential cure for mental and physical ailments of all kinds.

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